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I just read your article about Benoit. I did not know he had died and do feel saddened by his passing.

Your article is excellent.

I met Benoit at IBM, Yorktown in 1983. Richard Voss, a physicist at IBM was working with Benoit, writing software for fractals. Besides helping Benoit make selections of images for his book on Fractals, my husband Jack, a Pediatrician who also died at 85 of Pancreatic Cancer, and I became friends of Benoit and his wife Aliette. Unfortunately, our communication lessened after I completed a two-year period at IBM and returned to Bell Labs in MH. However, I did arrange a lunch at our house in NJ with Benoit, Aliette and Bela Julesz and Margit. Benoit and Bela knew of each other but had never met. It was a wonderful afternoon watching and listening to these two giants interact.

I am a n admirer of your writing and look forward to rereading your “Chaos” on my Kindle.